Many people have said: Schools should teach children how to think, not how to think.
But what if they think it is wrong?
An educational revolution may come to the rescue.
For example: the reconsideration of the University of North Carolina.
As early as August 2020, the college was working on the “Project 1619” Creator Nicole Hannah-Jones Join the faculty and teach courses based on her New York Times initiative (she eventually Served at Howard University instead).
According to reports Campus reform, The outlet recently obtained a memorandum of that period.
Discussion topic: “Diversity”.
The following detailed information is conveyed by CR, according to the so-called content Documentation.
On August 1, Susan King, Dean of the Haasman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina, wrote to the principal of the school, Kevin Guskiewicz, to celebrate the coming of Nikole:
Hannah-Jones will teach a large class open to all students… This class will advance all our values around diversity and media, and give students inside and outside Hussman a deeper understanding of the impact of systemic racism and slavery on the United States .
Susan lamented that at the time, “a Hussman student might graduate without taking courses focused on diversity issues.”
“Teacher,” she promised, “I believe this is a problem.”
Hussman School has asked teachers to include diversity elements in their curriculum; but this is not enough:
Although every class taught in the school must have a syllabus that reflects the value of diversity, teachers consider it to be uneven, and they worry that one or more new courses that only focus on diversity will weaken the emphasis on racism, social justice, and culture. The need for ability. course.
So how do they plan to fix it? It will be a mandatory course specifically for race.
By the fall of 2022, the letter clearly stated that managers will “develop a necessary core foundation course of cultural competence, which includes a global perspective and racial, ethnic, and structural racism, applicable to everyone. [their] student. “
In addition, according to the document, the news writing course must be absolutely to the point.
Therefore, it needs to “include style guides from the following organizations”:
return:
Through the latter’s “Part 2-Terms and Phrases to Avoid“:
Avoid using terms such as “biological sex”, “biological gender”, “biological female”, “biological female”, “biological male” or “biological male”. These terms are inaccurate and often offensive. When necessary, you can use terms such as “designated as male at birth” or “designated as female at birth” to refer to the gender that someone was assigned at birth. After the first citation, they can be abbreviated as “AMAB” and “AFAB”. Seriously consider whether a story needs this information. …
Not all people who use her/her are women, and not all people who use him/him are men.
As for “diversity” in general, the word seems to be living the best life at the moment:
The university aims at utopia and launches the “diversity, fairness and tolerance” doctoral program
The generals call for greater diversity and encourage more women to participate in the war
The university plans to recruit employees based on their “diversity and inclusion” ratings
inside “how Thinking about the department, “Things may not be so prosperous:
Harvard professor insisted that there are two genders, colleagues “shocked”
In this regard, although the memo emphasized “diversity”, it caused a huge conflict that Hussman ultimately had to deal with:
There is a fundamental conflict between efforts to promote racial equality and understanding structural racism and efforts to promote ideological diversity. These two things cannot stand side by side without conflict.
The letter expressed its intention to “re-examine the’diversity of views’.”
Campus reform Note that UNC has provided a statement to the exit:
Our school believes that meaningful and productive public dialogue depends on the tolerance of different perspectives. This is the core of our mission. We adhere to this code of ethics and our long tradition of welcoming different perspectives into the school and debating issues respectfully, while being responsible for facts, accuracy and background.
How long before the school “re-examines” the conflict between the diversity of ideas and the other “central” concepts it aims to pursue?
Only time will prove everything, but I don’t think this is the safest bet.
-Alex
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